SECOND TEST SIDE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 531, 7 December 1928, Page 1

SECOND TEST SIDE

Richardson, Andrews, Blackie Among Thirteen Men Named MORE KICKS FOR SELECTORS RICHARDSON, Andrews and Blackie have been included among 13 players from whom the Australian second Test team will be chosen. The other ten are those who played in the first Test, except Gregory, who was injured. The selectors have done a bad job, Australians think. (United P.A. —By Telegraph — Copyright)

Reed. 9.45 a.m. BRISBANE, To-day. | The test selectors have cIio:«n the | following players, from among whom the side for the second test (to be commenced at Sydney on December 14) will be chosen: ANDREWS, New South Wales. BLACKIE, Victoria. BRADMAN, New South Wales. GRIMMETT, South Australia. HENDRY, Victoria. IRONMONGER, Victoria. KELLEWAY, New South Wales. KIPPAX. New South Wales. OLDFIELD, New South Wales. PONSFORD, Victoria. RYDER (captain), Victoria. RICHARDSON, South Australia. WOODFULL, Victoria. The team includes only four bowlers. The general impression is that the selectors have done their Job badly. Despite the overwhelming defeat of the first test, team, the Australian selectors have included in their provisional selection of 13 players every man who played at Brisbane, with the exception of Gregory, who is injured. The selection breaks no new ground, the three new men, Andrews, Blackie and Richardson being essentially ‘‘old stagers.” With Gregory out of action, and no fast bowler to fill his place, it can be taken for granted that Blackie is practically sura of selection. There will be little variety in the bowling; Ironmonger and Grimmett are slow and left-hand bowlex-s respectively, and the other three, Blackie, Kelleway and Hendry a rather colourless trio of medium-paced l-ight-handers.

Either Richardson or Andrews will probably go into the team to strengthen the fielding. Andrews is a brilliant cover-point, and Richardson is equally good at mid-off. There is bound to be dissatisfaction in Australia at the non-selection of Nothling and Bettington, two of the very few' bowlers who have so far presented any difficulties to the English batsmen.

FIRST TEST COMMENT

“A FAILURE IN MORALE’’ SYDNEY, Thursday. Commenting on the first test, the Sydney “Sun” says: “Unhappily the students of psychology will see more in this landslide of Australian cricket prestige than mere luck. The failure was in morale, as it used to be called. It was in something else, too. It was a failure reaching back a long way into the Australian tradition that native genius must always triumph over sheer hard work.” Mr. F. E. Chapman and Mrs. Chapman, parents of the English captain, arrived by the Oronsay to-day. Both expressed their sympathy with the Australians. Mr.'Chapman, senr., said that if circumstances had combined against the Englishmen as they had done against the Australians one would never have heard the last word of it in England. The luck of the match, with England winning the toss, was a big factor. Both parents are naturally proud of their cricketer son, whose photograph as a boy of two and a-half years, holding a bat, is one of their treasured possessions.